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A replacement for Layton - or rather an alternative?
My first comment on Parfumo - and then to a fragrance from DUA? The brand DUA fragrances divides the minds; some are happy that they get an alternative to high-priced fragrances, so they do not have to spend 200 €. Or when discontinued / reformulated fragrances are reintroduced to the market. Others, however, find it at least questionable when a brand lets itself be "inspired" so much by other people's fragrances.
In the following, I would like to make a comparison of the two fragrances and address the question of whether the DUA-Dupe is really a replacement or merely an alternative, which has parallels but is not the same. Carpintero made such a comparison a comment before me, but I want to look at it a bit from a different angle. His review is well worth reading, he compares the fragrances to each other in great detail as far as scent notes are concerned.
The opening of the DUA has me at the first comparison (on the wrist) of the two fragrances already somewhat overwhelmed. There is quite a lot coming out of the spray head and the scent is quite potent. I smelled almost nothing of the Layton in the first few minutes. When I retested, I only applied half a spray from the RCA. Now they are almost the same in terms of intensity. The opening is quite different from the Layton after all. Layton just smells much deeper. RCA just smells sweet to me with a menthol note. I can't describe what it smells like. I'll try to describe it: It smells kind of like if you were to mix Layton really finely and add some menthol. I can't make out any individual notes, it smells more like a mash. Still, a tasty one. It's probably just me, because I don't have such a trained nose.
RCA resembles its model more and more as it goes on. There is vanilla added, also the apple comes through better. But to me, Layton just doesn't smell as flat. Both are sweet, both smell like apple, both smell like vanilla. But RCA doesn't smell as high-end and deep.
Another small example about durability: I sprayed RCA one morning, two half sprays on the neck. In the evening we were still out with friends. We sat at the table and suddenly someone asked: What smells here so? It turned out that it was my perfume. I had it on my skin for 10h and he wasn't sitting right next to me, there was a space in between. H/S are just brutally good.
Let's get to the conclusion: the first time I smelled RCA, I wanted to like it. I bought it blind, I only had one bottling of the Layton. And I liked it. Very much. It was the first really high quality fragrance I smelled. But as time went on, I wondered: does RCA Layton really smell that similar? And I compared them again, more consciously. And I thought to myself: are they supposed to be twins? Without question, they smell similar. I maintain, based on the sillage, you won't be able to tell them apart, if at all. But for me they are not twins but just normal siblings. They look similar and yet have their differences. But why did this fragrance get a 9 rating from me? It smells very good, but just different from Layton - if you compare closely. Of course it is my subjective feeling, many people on Parfumo seem to see it differently. I claim here in no case to the universally valid opinion;) For me, RCA is more of an alternative than a replacement for Layton. Very recommendable to this topic I find the review of MrPink to Bois Oudh, also from DUAFragrances.
Thank you for reading.
In the following, I would like to make a comparison of the two fragrances and address the question of whether the DUA-Dupe is really a replacement or merely an alternative, which has parallels but is not the same. Carpintero made such a comparison a comment before me, but I want to look at it a bit from a different angle. His review is well worth reading, he compares the fragrances to each other in great detail as far as scent notes are concerned.
The opening of the DUA has me at the first comparison (on the wrist) of the two fragrances already somewhat overwhelmed. There is quite a lot coming out of the spray head and the scent is quite potent. I smelled almost nothing of the Layton in the first few minutes. When I retested, I only applied half a spray from the RCA. Now they are almost the same in terms of intensity. The opening is quite different from the Layton after all. Layton just smells much deeper. RCA just smells sweet to me with a menthol note. I can't describe what it smells like. I'll try to describe it: It smells kind of like if you were to mix Layton really finely and add some menthol. I can't make out any individual notes, it smells more like a mash. Still, a tasty one. It's probably just me, because I don't have such a trained nose.
RCA resembles its model more and more as it goes on. There is vanilla added, also the apple comes through better. But to me, Layton just doesn't smell as flat. Both are sweet, both smell like apple, both smell like vanilla. But RCA doesn't smell as high-end and deep.
Another small example about durability: I sprayed RCA one morning, two half sprays on the neck. In the evening we were still out with friends. We sat at the table and suddenly someone asked: What smells here so? It turned out that it was my perfume. I had it on my skin for 10h and he wasn't sitting right next to me, there was a space in between. H/S are just brutally good.
Let's get to the conclusion: the first time I smelled RCA, I wanted to like it. I bought it blind, I only had one bottling of the Layton. And I liked it. Very much. It was the first really high quality fragrance I smelled. But as time went on, I wondered: does RCA Layton really smell that similar? And I compared them again, more consciously. And I thought to myself: are they supposed to be twins? Without question, they smell similar. I maintain, based on the sillage, you won't be able to tell them apart, if at all. But for me they are not twins but just normal siblings. They look similar and yet have their differences. But why did this fragrance get a 9 rating from me? It smells very good, but just different from Layton - if you compare closely. Of course it is my subjective feeling, many people on Parfumo seem to see it differently. I claim here in no case to the universally valid opinion;) For me, RCA is more of an alternative than a replacement for Layton. Very recommendable to this topic I find the review of MrPink to Bois Oudh, also from DUAFragrances.
Thank you for reading.
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